Ternikar Presents Paper on Refugee Cuisine

Farha Ternikar, Ph.D., of the Department of Anthropology, Criminology and Sociology presented a paper titled “The Arrival of Refugee Cuisine or Culinary Tourism?” at a joint annual meeting of the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society and the Association for the Study of Food and Society in Madison, Wis. In her research, Ternikar explores how the food of Nepal, Afghanistan and Syria have become constructed as refugee cuisine. Her larger aim, though, is to  trace the development of refugee cuisine and explore how ethnic and racial hierarchies shape the success or failures of these endeavors.  .